WCS Events

WCS is organizing or co-organizing about twenty separate events/sessions, including symposia, pavilions, workshops, Knowledge Cafés, and Conservation Campus sessions. Topics to be covered include: wildlife trafficking including illegal ivory trade, critically endangered Asian mammals; bison reintroductions in North America; protected areas and the UNESCO-World Heritage Convention; monitoring and enforcement in marine protected areas; climate change adaptation; gender and integrating women into natural resource management; sustainable development and the waters of the Amazon Basin; spatial planning for conservation; delivering on the new UN Sustainable Development Goals; and the role of corruption in illegal wildlife trade. Below you will find the details of WCS-led events.

WCS will also launch publications at the Congress, including one on achieving the targets of global biodiversity through treaties and conventions.